attempted murder alexina. alexei navalny is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the sharpest possible terms in the name of the entire german government schefter. remains in an induced coma at a violent hospital and in serious condition the attorney and anticorruption activist fell ill after boarding a plane in siberia heading for moscow on the 20th of august it's believed someone poisoned his d. before he boarded the plane the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing to save life the german government says testing carried out by its military proves a soviet era nerve agent novi chuck was used. it was we expect the russian government to explain itself over this incident there are very serious questions now that only the russian government can and must answer. went on for. 3 years saying not only has been fighting to regress or of what he calls crooks and

thieves. and you know the united russia party has always won for 20 years and even if they lost using fraud they won anyway. the outspoken opposition figure has organized numerous anti kremlin protests has been arrested several times for civil disobedience and even attempted to get on the ballot to run for president in 2018 his bed was blocked by the courts. has suffered physical and verbal attacks in recent is. pressure is now growing on the german government to stop a major project being carried out with russia the controversial gas pipeline not stream to the government has been defending it against criticism from many sides including e.u. partners and the us but now even senior politicians from eccles own party say putin understands only one language. when it's used in if not stream to complete it.

now in this situation with the poisoning at the roots that would mean that vladimir putin could feel 100 percent confirmed that he's destroying the right kind of politics because the west doesn't do anything now at least not in the fields which are the only ones that he's interested in fighting. scenes in. russia is due to hold regional elections on the 13th of september and his allies have been campaigning to get their candidates elected but for now his family and friends are just holding on to the hope that 3. i'm joined now by even director of the anti corruption foundation that's the organizational examine the band he founded this is daft what do you make of the reaction of the german government and of the statement by the kremlin. from the. i understand. had been poisoned and the. yesterday we only received a contrary mission of this information we understand. sick.

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continue our war careers things that make no sense to sink about then and. you know ali is term. can't work. research work for ourselves and for guys who are in hospital what do you expect from europe and from germany in particular. and shoot demand from russian meant to initiate a criminal case and. everybody should demand to open an investigation or as it is her russian government.

has to explain what happened and proves his explanation. joining us from moscow thank you thank you. well know the talk is the same nerve agent that was used to poison a former russian intelligence agent and his daughter in britain in 28 the kremlin a suspected of involvement in that and several other poisonings over recent years. in march 28th a poisoning in the u.k. city of solved the well russian double agent 33 pal and his daughter yulia were found unconscious on a park bench. they have been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent a u.k. investigation blamed russia for the attack moscow denied any involvement and while the screen pal survived others weren't so lucky one woman who came into contact with residues of the nerve agent later died and before then another russian

defector had been poisoned in the u.k. overall members will note. the death drugs are the live in yankee in 2006 the former russian agent alexander litvinenko fled to london in 2000 he became ill and died in 2006 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium $210.00 a british inquiry found that his killing had been ordered at the highest level. further. that the. operation to. mr litvinenko was approved by mr but. the. f.s.b. . and also by president putin another case is viktor yuschenko in 2004 he was a ukrainian opposition leader running against moscow's preferred candidate he fell

ill after having dinner with ukrainian security officials doctors say he was poisoned with the chemical dioxin he survived going on to become president of ukraine. and activist p.r. to vesa love who has ties to russian protest group percy riot managed to survive what he says was a poisoning attempt in 2018 his theories backed by doctors who treated him in berlin says he was targeted because of his activism. is one of a. kind of like a warning gesture so as to indicates to other people who might want to go down that path to. the kremlin has consistently denied involvement in all these cases and while it can be almost impossible to prove who's guilty does it off and others are sure who is to blame. in slovakia

a powerful businessman has been acquitted of the murders of investigative journalist and his fiance martina was near over a panel of judges hundreds down the not guilty verdict in the murder case against marion prosecutors had said courts not ordered the killings which led to mass protests and the resignation of slovakia's prime minister in 2018 a not guilty verdict surprise family members and court watch just and prosecutors say they will appeal for. what happened on a dark day in february 28th seen an assassin killed 2 people in their own home just outside the slovak capital. the victim's investigative reporter yan could siac and his fiance martina christian over. there were immediate suspicions that the murder motive lay in could see acts work he was one of the best investigative journalist in slovakia urine in his young age he was 27 he was always

a very cheerful and modest guy always when he found some interesting story he would just smile and tell us about it. the end could siac have been on the trail of mafia connections massive fraud and endemic corruption reaching into the highest circles of slovakia's government and he was investigating this man matty and kitchener the prosecution claimed that the business tycoon built his empire using threats bribery intimidation and political connections they argued he was the mastermind behind the couple's death well kitchener and another suspect were cleared on thursday the 3rd defendant was found guilty for his involvement in the murders killings that sent shock waves throughout slovakia thousands took to the streets in the wake of their deaths demanding an end to cronyism and corruption. of the main bargain to really light up the. whole uprising of. government and their.

creaming off and we don't want to accept it anymore oh yeah. we are the protests force then prime minister robert feet so and his cabinet to resign. but even then the changes were of little comfort to colleagues. you know we saw more but i would hardly turn everything back 2 years if you can and martina was to the lives their lives were not worth the changes that were happening here we should be the ones who change things through democratic means like elections we should be changing the system it should not take the murder of 2 young people that are going to be anybody who already thursday's verdict yet another shock for many of the couple's colleagues and loved ones. time now for a quick scan of global headlines a court in hong kong has found multimillionaire media owner and pro-democracy activist jimmy lai not guilty of criminal intimidation lie was charged over

a confrontation with a journalist from a rival newspaper back in 2017 the case is unrelated to his recent arrest under konya new security law. typhoon may set has been lashing the korean peninsula the storm made landfall in the south hitting the 2nd largest city of luzon killing at least one person there it also brought flooding to north korea and in japan rescuers are searching for a ship capsized that capsized and sank carrying 43 people and thousands of cattle. germany has added the cannery islands to its list of for all of us hotspots that meant means all of spain is now considered a high risk area for german travelers infection rates have surged across spain since walk on measures were lifted in june. hollywood actor dwayne johnson says he and his family have all made a full recovery from covert 19 the star known as the rock says everyone is now healthy after testing positive more than 2 weeks ago but he says beating the virus

was a challenge. to turkey now where violence against women including been surging in recent years the trade off male family members or friends cultural norms in many communities dictate that what happens in a family home stays in the home but more and more turkish women are now speaking out. the friends described as a fun loving young woman. this was the image turkey was left with of the 27 year old student penasco to come on july 16th ex-boyfriend strangled her to death and then found her body. in a photo commemorates her and her favorite. now her friends beth and later set here without still numb with grief and in constant fear of becoming the next victim of

violence against women. can't get him back maybe tomorrow they'll be announcing my death it starts right from the very 1st 30 seconds encounter they say you can't go there alone. you mustn't wear this or that you can't meet so and so on and on and on my that's just another form of violence that the brutal murder you know can see can understand wave of protest nationwide against the rampant violence against women and. their forty's and many communities responded with violence sending policemen to beat the protesting women. the number of women much of each year in taxes more than doubled since 2012 now turkish women are no longer keeping signed their medicare but i have to know as friends are also taking to the streets every week in the hind town no longer will they sit by and do nothing as violence against women study rises pro-government policy journalists

like truck migration quick check don't see the problem so much. in a piece of men as in the istanbul convention on combating domestic violence turkey's them government signed and ratified it in 201231 of the december called whatever happens inside the 4 walls of the family's home not to stay there. this convention is incompatible with our faith our culture and our traditions. for years took has been representing the victims of domestic violence i'm a survivor as she's often seen the abuses appeal to the court for leniency and sympathy. because. this woman has done this or that ruined my male pride in a stain my are that's what motivated these actions charged. something and based their entire defense on it what to the men and. towns how important to them is the

protection of women. gun violence before i have to confess but it's important for everyone to understand each other and get along. the roots of the violence line are bringing. that has to change. murder victim punahou to concerns agree or not has to change in this country until it does the protests will go on when i join respondents you will from istanbul report that we heard about the brutal. sent shock waves across the nation but it's not an isolated case how widespread is violence against women in turkey. physical violence psychological violence against women and so-called femicide it's all chronic problems here in turkey and many actually say it's getting worse now

the government does not publish reliable statistics but according to one well known rights group more than 470 women were murdered here in turkey last year of by their partners their relatives that's the highest figure in a decade and for 2020 affected by the coronavirus roque downs at these numbers are expected to be even higher now many women here i've talked to tell me they've had enough of it they are scared that they are going to be next so if they are trying to raise attention on social media they are widely sharing the stories of victims and survivors in are demanding justice and they're trying to take to the streets now this is become more difficult in recent years he in turkey is the government has severely restricted basic rights and freedoms but these protests do happen we've just recently seen that here in istanbul and if you go to these protests you can really feel how much fear and grief is out there but also anger anger at the government's failure to act to better protect women and to enforce existing rules

and regulations but in the report we also heard about the istanbul convention that's a treaty designed to protect women from violence so if rates of violence and abuse are actually surging as you say why is there no debate in turkey over whether to destroy withdraw from these double convention. well that sounds ironic especially if you consider that this international agreement has been forged here in istanbul nearly a decade ago that's why it's called the istanbul convention it was back then hailed as a major achievement for women's rights it was signed by 45 countries turkey was in fact the country the 1st country to ratify it even before germany and france and now we're seeing a new debate coming from within the ruling party present iran's ruling a.k.p. whether turkey should withdraw now it's not a new debate as we heard in the report for years conservative politicians and

pro-government media have been urging the government to scrap that treaty they argue that it threatens traditional family structures that it promotes so quote immoral lifestyles or b.t.i. ideology now this is really grounded in anything the treaty says but this piece of paper really has become the target of populist restore aches and all humans and now it seems everybody is waiting for president it on himself to have a final word on this so what you mention. is. his party and the debate that's going on right now what role does the government policy play. well talking of prison adam himself he has for example publicly condemned the murder often argue taken that many say he's otherwise remained silent and now he's delaying a decision on that istanbul convention because he knows there is no consensus within his own party there isn't even consensus within his own family one of his

daughter has in fact on the board of a rights group that has been defending this convention according to a latest poll more than 60 percent of people here in istanbul do think that convention is extremely important for defending women's rights so if he really goes for it if he withdraws turkey from that treaty then there is going to be major outcry domestically here in turkey but also abroad and it's probably also pushing turkey even further away from the european union. dues reporting from istanbul thank you jim and the u.s. of course has ruled that the controversial surveillance program run by the national security agency n.s.a. and exposed by whistleblower edward snowden was unlawful and possibly unconstitutional snowden the fled to russia in 2030 and after revealing that the spy agency was behind the sweeping global surveillance of august and data on millions of people around the world including prominent world leaders revelations

you will see bates over mass surveillance and the rights to privacy. really well there's a reporter or as a guest here with more on that story remind us what was a scandal all about what the n.s.a. did what you what even also question what that the n.s.a. not to do this surveillance was so sweeping that it's really hard to know where to begin but we do know that they collected phone records for millions of americans they collected text messages they spied on people by harvesting the dots are sometimes stealing daughter from the tech giants google apple facebook and microsoft and the like they also they tapped into fiber optic cables to intercept dots on the internet on the worldwide web and they spied on more than 100 world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel by tapping her phone and now this program started back in the bush administration but it was exposed in 2013 by edward snowden he then worked at the n.s.a. at the time before that top and people in america had said that they that they did

not collect data from americans after this was revealed they then said that the the are they argue that the spying was crucial in fighting terrorism now one case that has been held up as evidence is the case about 4 somalians who were convicted. of aiding a terrorist groups in somalia now this court ruling in in an appeals court to do with this case they found that the n.s.a. program was not relevant in the conviction of those 4 somalians so there is no evidence that this program ever stopped terrorism so what has the reaction been to this ruling and what did what does this ruling now mean well so we have reaction the a.c.l.u. the american civil liberties union they have called it a victory for privacy rights edward snowden himself reacted he tweeted saying that

7 years ago as the news was declared that i was being charged as a criminal. speaking the truth i never imagined that i would live to see our courts condemn the n.s.a. sic to vicki's as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them of course it now remains to be seen what will happen to snowden just a couple of weeks ago president donald trump actually floated the idea of a pardon trump pass in the past called snowden a traitor he's even called for his execution now there is little there's not much. support in washington for a pardon both democrats democratic and republican lawmakers have said that that would be a big mistake snowden has said he is of course in exile in russia he said that he would not return to the u.s. and less the as the unit charges against him were dropped. will this mean that the

n.s.a. will have to what's changed their ways is that something that we can expect that is unlikely the this program doesn't exist anymore it's it was phased out finally it ended in 2019 but what's the n.s.a. will do in the future is of course. well of course other leah than the all hours ago thank you very much for this. now we have some breaking news coming in german police say they have found the bodies of 5 children in the western city of zoning and the bodies were found in an apartment complex in the city authorities have not released any additional details about the cause of death or potential suspects at this time we'll bring you more on this story as we get it. first some football news and brazilian star

naima is likely to be missing from the start of the new french league season after catching cold 19 the case seems to be linked to a holiday trip to the spanish mediterranean island of isa that several p.s.g. players took following the champions league final defeat by by a new nick teammates. and leandro predators are also self isolating in paris both were with neymar on holiday holiday last week. you're watching the news here's a reminder of our top story the german government says it has solid proof that kremlin critical insane avani was poisoned with a nerve agent uncle are now called the incident attempted murder germany is now pushing allies for joint response to moscow. coming up next in a news asia prisoner releases in afghanistan appear to renew peace talks after that spot where the truce between the government and the taliban leads to a lasting peace in the country. and a german conductor refuses to pause for

a pandemic that celebrates big holdings birthday in south korea. all that much more with the purest vanity coming right that's it from me in the news stream and now thanks for watching.

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